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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ophthalmology \Oph`thal*mol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. 'ofqalmo`s the eye +
   -logy: cf. F. ophthalmologie.]
   The science which treats of the structure, functions, and
   diseases of the eye.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ophthalmology
    n 1: the branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its
         diseases